dreamcast linux - different window manager

[bobbarnes1981]

Hi, i'm no linux guru, i'm just really fiddling with my dreamcast for the fun of it. Does anyone have a link to a site (or instructions/help) for compiling for DCLinux? i'd like to try a different window manager (FluxBox), or is TWM the only one that will run on the DC's limited hardware. Thanks, bob...

[VampiricS]

Quoted from Ron in another thread:

OK, here we go
http://www.m17n.org/linux-sh/dreamcast/

Linux on Dreamcast
A Beginners Guide

http://www.fivemouse.com/dclinux.html

http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7466555948.html

and http://linuxdc.sourceforge.net/

For NetBSD just use the search in the page, a lot of info is compiled about.

http://www.netbsd.org

With this you wouldn't have any problem approaching to Linux in Dreamcast.
Good Luck

[bender]

NetBSD it's probably much better for systems like the dreamcast. It's designed to work specially well in many kind of embedded systems. It will suit better on a dc and that's the main reason of the dc port being still worked on and not GNU/Linux
NetBSD does work even in a toaster,lol: http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.htm

[bobbarnes1981]

thanks for that, i'm currently downloading netbsd-dreamcast.iso but still interested in playing with linux. i followed the links and did all the cross compiling stuff and d to compiled fluxbox into my dclinux distro's directory. i also had to alter /usr/local/bin/startfluxbox so that it pointed to the relative directory in dclinux, but when i try to startfluxbox i get this:

/root/.fluxbox/startup: /usr/local/binbsetroot: cannot execute binary file
/root/.fluxbox/startup: /usr/local/bin/fluxbox: cannot execute binary file
/root/.fluxbox/startup: /usr/local/binfluxbox Exec format error

i suppose this means i have compiled wrong somehow...

if any one can shed any light on this it would be appreciated...

but i'll be trying NetBSD when it's downloaded too, does it come with a slightly better window manager than DCLinux's twm or is it just a console distribution?

cheers